To W. D. Fox [30 April 1857]
Summary
His impressions of the hydropathic establishment and E. W. Lane. Is convinced the only thing for "chronic cases" is the water-cure.
Asks if WDF knows of any breed of pig that originated or was modified by a cross with a Chinese or Neapolitan pig, and whether the crossbreed bred true.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [30 Apr 1857] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 103) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2085 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … of CD’s previous treatment at Gully’s establishment in Malvern. Lane described his method …
- … His impressions of the hydropathic establishment and E. W. Lane. Is convinced the only …
- … who are the proprietors of this establishment very much. — D r . L. is too young,—that is …
- … had turned the house into a hydropathic establishment in or around 1850; by 1855, Lane had …
- … recently visited Gully’s hydropathic establishment in Malvern for treatment. See letter to …
- … in some cases, in his water-cure establishment in Malvern. For CD’s opinion of these …
From Henrietta Emma Darwin [2 August 1857]
Summary
Is looking forward to returning home [from Moor Park hydropathic establishment]. News of other patients and the books she is reading. Although feeling well, cannot walk much.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2 Aug 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 245: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2131A |
Matches: 2 hits
- … home [from Moor Park hydropathic establishment]. News of other patients and the books she …
- … to Edward Wickstead Lane’s hydropathic establishment at Moor Park on Friday, 29 May 1857, …
To W. D. Fox 22 February [1857]
Summary
Helix pomatia is quite healthy after 20 days’ submersion in salt water.
On peas, the evidence is on WDF’s side, but CD cannot see how they can avoid being crossed.
He is working hard, wishes he "could set less value on the bauble fame"; would work as hard, but with less gusto, if he knew his book would be published forever anonymously.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1857] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 101–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2057 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … went to Moor Park, a hydropathic establishment in Surrey, from 22 April until 6 May. …
- … had died at Gully’s hydropathic establishment in Malvern in 1851 (see Correspondence …
- … James Manby Gully ran a hydropathic establishment in Malvern. For CD’s and Fox’s previous …
To Charles Lyell 13 April [1857]
Summary
CD returns a letter from Wollaston.
Although opposed to the Forbesian doctrine [of continental extension] as a general rule, CD would have no objection to its being proved in some cases. Does not think Wollaston has proved it; nor can anyone until more is known about the means of distribution of insects – but the identity of the two faunas is certainly interesting.
His health is very poor and his "everlasting species-Book" quite overwhelms him with work. It is beyond his powers, but he hopes to live to finish it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1857] |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.109/702) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2077 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Edward Wickstead Lane’s hydropathic establishment at Moor Park, Surrey, on 22 April and …
- … CD’s intention to visit a hydropathic establishment ‘in a week’s time’ (see n. 5, below). …
To J. D. Hooker 14 [November 1857]
Summary
Rule that species vary most in larger genera seems universal.
Response to Gardeners’ Chronicle note on "Bees and kidney beans" [Collected papers 1: 275–7].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 [Nov 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 215 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2170 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Edward Wickstead Lane’s hydropathic establishment (‘Journal’; see Correspondence vol. 6, …
To J. D. Hooker 25 June [1857]
Summary
Seedling leaves of gorse look like clover leaves. This is like young lions being striped. Thus, laws of animal embryology apply to plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 June [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2112 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … by CD’s stay at Moor Park hydropathic establishment at the same time as Henrietta Emma …
To W. D. Fox 17 December [1857]
Summary
Thanks WDF for his letter about a rabbit breed that he thinks is the Himalaya. He is particularly glad to hear of it because it breeds so true.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 105) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2187 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … at James Manby Gully’s hydropathic establishment in Malvern (see Correspondence vol. 4, …
To T. C. Eyton 26 [June 1857]
Summary
Ill.
Comments on TCE’s study of birds’ bones.
His work on variation progresses.
Asks about horses with bars like zebra or ass.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Date: | 26 [June 1857] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.147) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2113 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … here, where I am staying at a Hydropathic establishment as my health has lately been very …
To W. E. Darwin 29 [October 1857]
Summary
Discusses WED’s future education, the work on the extension, and other domestic affairs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 29 [Oct 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2147 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … at Edward Wickstead Lane’s hydropathic establishment, on 31 October 1857 ( Emma Darwin’s …
To J. D. Hooker [23 October 1857]
Summary
Return of books.
JDH coming to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [23 Oct 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2157 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Edward Wickstead Lane’s hydropathic establishment at Moor Park since 22 August 1857. She …
To Alfred Russel Wallace 1 May 1857
Summary
Reports long preparation of work on how species and varieties differ. Agreement with Wallace’s conclusions as reported in Annals and Magazine of Natural History and in his letter to CD of 10 0ct [1856]. On distinction between domestic varieties and those in "a state of nature".
On mating of jaguars and leopards, the breeding of poultry, pigeons, etc.
Requests help for his experimenting on means of distribution of organic beings on oceanic islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 1 May 1857 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2086 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … my home, as dated, but from a water-cure establishment. With most sincere good wishes for …
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 12 November 1857]
Summary
Asks writer of an article on weeds why he supposes "there is too much reason to believe that foreign seed of an indigenous species is often more prolific than that grown at home?" The point is of interest to CD "in regard to the great battle of life which is perpetually going on all around us". Cites analogous observations by Asa Gray and J. D. Hooker. Does writer know "of any other analogous cases of a weed introduced from another land beating out … a weed previously common in any particular field or farm?"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 12 Nov 1857] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 14 November 1857, p. 779 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2169 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … underwent hydropathy at the Moor Park establishment from 5 to 12 November 1857 (‘Journal’; …
From T. V. Wollaston [12 April 1857]
Summary
Lists groups of insects absent from the Madeiran fauna.
| Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Apr 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2076 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … at James Manby Gully’s hydropathic establishment in Malvern in 1849 (see Correspondence …
To Asa Gray 18 June [1857]
Summary
Thanks for AG’s remarks on disjoined species. CD’s notions are based on belief that disjoined species have suffered much extinction, which is the common cause of small genera and disjoined ranges.
Discusses out-crossing in plants.
Has failed to meet with a detailed account of regular and normal impregnation in the bud. Podostemon, Subularia, and underwater Leguminosae are the strongest cases against him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 18 June [1857] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (9a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2109 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Edward Wickstead Lane’s hydropathic establishment at Moor Park, where he had arrived on …
To W. D. Fox 30 October [1857]
Summary
Has come to think his brains were not made for thinking – he immediately feels better when at Moor Park.
News of his family.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 30 Oct [1857] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 104) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2161 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Lane did not move his hydropathic establishment from Moor Park until 1860, when he …
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| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
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Darwin and religion in America
Summary
Thomas Dixon, 'America’s Difficulty with Darwin', History Today (2009), reproduced by permission. Darwin has not been forgotten. But he has, in some respects, been misremembered. That has certainly been true when it comes to the relationship…
Matches: 5 hits
- … to the acceptance of his ideas within the scientific establishment. For all these reasons, he did …
- … that God does not act by constant miracles but ‘by the establishment of general laws’. The second is …
- … Darwin died, his theory had been accepted by the scientific establishment and was well on the way to …
- … forbade Congress from passing any law ‘respecting an establishment of religion.’ The First Amendment …
- … in publicly funded schools in this country, from the establishment of the first state schools by the …
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
Summary
In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
Matches: 1 hits
- … for Aarene. Grayson, Donald K. 1983. The establishment of human antiquity . New York: …
Darwin's health
Summary
On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
Matches: 3 hits
- … where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his …
- … to W. D. Fox, 13 November [1858] ). He first visited the establishment of James Manby Gully at …
- … vols. 6 and 7). He also stayed at Lane’s new establishment in Sudbrook Park, Surrey, at the end of …
Darwin’s Women: Short Film
Summary
In a short film based on her research on the “Darwin and Gender” project funded by the Parasol Foundation and part of the Darwin Correspondence Project based at Cambridge University Library, Dr Philippa Hardman suggests a different, more nuanced picture of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Hardman discusses how Darwin seems to bolster an establishment perspective in print, while privately …
Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter
Summary
The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … at Anne’s bedside at James Manby Gully’s hydropathic establishment in Malvern to Emma, who was …
Charles Harrison Blackley
Summary
You may not have heard of Charles Harrison Blackley (1820–1900), but if you are one of the 15 million people in the UK who suffer from hay fever, you are indebted to him. For it was he who identified pollen as the cause of the allergy. Darwin was…
Matches: 1 hits
- … homeopathic treatments that were scorned by the medical establishment. Himself a hay fever sufferer …
British Association meeting 1860
Summary
Several letters refer to events at the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the meeting but in the end was unable to. The most famous incident of the meeting was the verbal…
Matches: 1 hits
- … week of the meeting at Edward Wickstead Lane’s hydropathic establishment at Sudbrook Park in …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
Matches: 1 hits
- … on 2 September for more than a month at a hydropathic establishment in Malvern Wells, Worcestershire …
George Peacock
Summary
George Peacock was born 9 April 1791 in Denton near Darlington in Yorkshire. He was the son of a clergyman, the Rev. Thomas Peacock, curate of Denton for 50 years and school master. George was educated at Sedbergh School, Cumbria and Richmond School in…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Astronomical Society in London and a keen promoter of the establishment of an astronomical …
Editorial policy and practice
Summary
Full texts are added to this site four years after the letter is published in the print edition of the Correspondence. Transcriptions are made from the original or a facsimile where these are available. Where they are not, texts are taken from the best…
Matches: 1 hits
- … or simply the day of the week. This practice has made the establishment of firm dates one of the …
Instinct and the Evolution of Mind
Summary
Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Slave-making ants For Darwin, slave-making ants were a powerful example of the force of instinct. He used the case of the ant Formica sanguinea in the On the Origin of Species to show how instinct operates—how…
Matches: 1 hits
- … 1858] Written from Moor Park, a hydropathic medical establishment where Darwin was being …
Clémence Auguste Royer
Summary
Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first translator he approached, Madame Belloc, turned him down on the grounds that the content was ‘too scientific‘, and then in 1860 the French political exile Pierre…
Matches: 1 hits
- … de Paris , she criticized a male-controlled scientific establishment in no uncertain terms: “Up …
The writing of "Origin"
Summary
From a quiet rural existence at Down in Kent, filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on the transmutation of species, Darwin was jolted into action in 1858 by the arrival of an unexpected letter (no longer extant) from Alfred Russel Wallace outlining a…
Matches: 2 hits
- … begun to write the abstract, Darwin left for a hydropathic establishment at Ilkley in Yorkshire to …
- … Henrietta would benefit from the treatment at the new establishment, but in this he was disappointed …
Essay: What is Darwinism?
Summary
—by Asa Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’ Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … work, and in the words of Whewell and Bishop Butler: 1. The establishment by divine power of general …
St George Jackson Mivart
Summary
In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … ‘Another triumph of the ... Christian period has been the establishment of at least a pure theory of …
Review: The Origin of Species
Summary
- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
Matches: 4 hits
- … to view real causes which have been largely operative in the establishment of the actual association …
- … it is not thought, at least at the present day, that the establishment of the Newtonian theory was a …
- … of one force, atheistical in its tendency? The supposed establishment of this view is reckoned as …
- … has not established that doctrine, nor advanced toward its establishment, but has accumulated …
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
Matches: 7 hits
- … whose subjects have been or may be benifited by the establishment of the Settlement. Mr Hare …
- … to favour it – not even perhaps to allow of it’s establishment – on terms suitable to Mr Ross' …
- … object – I could not help making – would result in the establishment of even better Order than that …
- … exonerates them from contributing to bear the expense of its establishment – as they would have to …
- … on the Cocos^ – the erection of a cathedral and the establishment of a Puseyite Bishop with Chapter …
- … absent at Batavia – we were however visited by some of his establishment – and after the duties of …
- … of the Southern Keeling Island – bringing with him an Establishment of Malays – including a Seraglio …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
Summary
The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
Matches: 2 hits
- … begun to write the abstract, Darwin left for a hydropathic establishment at Ilkley in Yorkshire to …
- … Henrietta would benefit from the treatment at the new establishment, but in this he was disappointed …
Darwin in letters, 1877: Flowers and honours
Summary
Ever since the publication of Expression, Darwin’s research had centred firmly on botany. The year 1877 was no exception. The spring and early summer were spent completing Forms of flowers, his fifth book on a botanical topic. He then turned to the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … to send you anything you want and would transfer the whole establishment to Down if it lay in my …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
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- … Whewell, and other prominent members of the scientific establishment, he obtained a Treasury grant …
